I have an iPhone and use it more for apps and internet than as a phone. Accessing information through the internet with an app is much more preferable than using the Safari browser. There are apps that simply use the mobile format and then there are customized view apps like USA Today, NYTimes, Bloomberg, Weather Channel, etc. that go beyond just reformatting the text to fit the screen. I prefer the customized apps over the text reformat apps.

What would I want? One thing I have not found in the iPhone is a message forum that is easily navigable and readable in an app format other than Facebook in the places I frequent. That's what I would like more than anything else.

Since I am not an Insider I rarely look at anything else on Roadfood.com. I deliberately never use the restaurants reviews and only look at them when they a restaurant is being discussed in the forums. I learn enough from the forums and enjoy discovery more than following up.

Personally, I just purchased one of the new Android based phones (I bought the HTC Eris) but I am excited because the App process for the Android phones is a lot easier to deal with than the Apple process. Either way, this is GREAT news for current Roadfooders and especially, new subscribers.

An app would be great. With all the web browser enabled smart phones out here now, including iPhone, iTouch, Droid, HTCs, Pre, etc. a mobile version of the Roadfood site might be simpler than an app. Don't know much about coding, but usually when there's an app for Apple, someone changes it to work on the other platforms too.

IMO, the handiest app would be a proximity search with a choice of whether to base it around one's current coordinates or around some other given point, resulting in a list of restaurants arranged by closeness to the designated point. Of course, each listing would be a hot link to the Roadfood.com review.

IMO, the handiest app would be a proximity search with a choice of whether to base it around one's current coordinates or around some other given point, resulting in a list of restaurants arranged by closeness to the designated point. Of course, each listing would be a hot link to the Roadfood.com review.

This sounds perfect. It's much like the POI on GPS units. On mine (Tomtom), I can look for a POI near my current location, my targeted destination, in a city center or near an address. Adding a link to the Roadfood review would take it to a whole new level. Could you also link to the restaurant's website (if they had one), or is that a copyright (or some other legal) issue?

IMO, the handiest app would be a proximity search with a choice of whether to base it around one's current coordinates or around some other given point, resulting in a list of restaurants arranged by closeness to the designated point.

You can pretty much do that with the current mobile web site, although, you need to input the address or city.

I just noticed that http://www.nextbus.com/webkit will ask for your current location on an iPhone, and show data relevant to your current location. I'm not an HTML expert at all, but I have fantasies that that technology might make it possible to implement "restaurants close to me" as a web app for the iPhone.

In addition to being stuck with AT&T, the iPhone falls short in many areas and you guys have to deal with all of Steve Jobs' arcane development rules and censorship. Heck, you go to the trouble to develop something and Jobs kills it (for no apparent reason) - it's happened to many others; don't discount the possibility.

There is no app you could offer that would get me to buy and iPhone.

An app for Android would be a different story. Yes, I'd love to have Roadfood capability in a Smartphone. My current phone is a Symbian but it's pretty apparent Android is the future. Blackberry will still have a good market and I suspect many Roadfooders are business travelers who use Blackberries. Palm OS looks like a dead-end and Microsoft can't seem to get its act together for a mobile operating system. So do Android and then Blackberry.

Stephen - Has this been released and if so, are there plans for a Droid app. i'm picking up a Droid in the next few days to enable me to stay with verizon. I use Roadfood Mobile religiously on my many year old Palm Treo. Thanks!

Stephen - Has this been released and if so, are there plans for a Droid app. i'm picking up a Droid in the next few days to enable me to stay with verizon. I use Roadfood Mobile religiously on my many year old Palm Treo. Thanks!

As an insider you can access the Point of Interest file for Google Earth. This makes the roadfood places accessible on Google Maps. In other words, no special app is really needed.

Stephen - Has this been released and if so, are there plans for a Droid app. i'm picking up a Droid in the next few days to enable me to stay with verizon. I use Roadfood Mobile religiously on my many year old Palm Treo. Thanks!

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Stephen - Has this been released and if so, are there plans for a Droid app. i'm picking up a Droid in the next few days to enable me to stay with verizon. I use Roadfood Mobile religiously on my many year old Palm Treo. Thanks!

You will love your new Droid! Especially once you get use to all it can do and there are improvements coming soon. much more versatile than the i-phone

I'd appreciate a more full explanation, also. I figured out how to add the Google Earth PoI file to Google Earth running on the desktop, but not on my phone.

The result is a bit quirky, but it worked for me.

First, go to insider pages and download the KML/KMZ (forget which) file of roadfood data for google earth. Then go to Google Maps on your PC and in the "My Maps" section create a new map. Using the import feature available when you make a new map, import the KML/KMZ file.

Oddly, not all the roadfood places will appear in the PC version, but when you go to the android version of google maps, and find your saved map and open as a "layer" the places will all be there.

Thank you very much, Tony! This worked for me with Google Earth on the iPhone and iPad.

Glad it worked! I am curious, when you created a "my map" out of the roadfood KMZ file, did all places appear on it at once? As I wrote. on PC, I can only get some of the roadfood places to appear. On android, it is the same, but if I zoom, then turn the layer off, and on again, the roadfood places DO appear. Like I said...quirky.

It seems that on the Google Maps website, only one page's worth of places appears at any one time. On the iPhone/iPad, Google Earth is also showing only the first page--and I haven't yet figured how to show a different set of places.

would it be posible to have the app also do something like Foursquare where you could "check in" at Roadfood restaurants? Then also let you know if other Roadfoodies are there or nearby? Would give a chance for impromptu eat and meets. And also have an option of adding your location (with GPS coordination) if its not in the database, and be able to also add tips on what to try and what to avoid.